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b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

This week's winner was wwe84. Back-to-back weekly wins see him climb up to 12th spot, his highest position all season. BxBarracuda collected one of the wooden spoons on offer this week; and fell to his lowest spot for the season.

FussBudget also collected a wooden spoon. His second wooden spoon in three weeks sees his lead evaporate to zero; he's now joint leader with Howie72.

illiniman14 is still the only player with a wooden spoon. His last spoon was in wk 31 of last year's comp (his streak is now 37 wks and still running).

We have now separated into three distinct groups of five players. We still have the same five out front but the 7 pt spread between #1 and #5 has been halved from 7 pts to a mere 3˝ pts. The next five are separated by a just 2˝ pts, and the next five after those are covered by a mere 3˝ pts .. and from there we have the two tail enders.

Once again, ozzz2002 scored a bonus pick. He has now scored a bonus pick every week from week 12 onwards, to make it a record-equalling 11 weeks straight .. he has equalled his own record!

We're one week short of the half-way mark in this comp and he already has 30 bonuses. Last year he collected 48 for the entire season, and the season before that (2011-12) he collected 54 of the blighters .. but dg_dave scored 58 of them! A new entry has been created in the FLC Record Book for these stupendous feats (see post above this one).

He's on pace to beat me by two. If it happens, it does, but I'm not holding out for anything!

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The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin JowettNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor RooseveltThe day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

Back-to-back wooden spoons see FussBudget relinquish 1st place after a run of 14 weeks at the top of the pile (to be entered into FT HoF). He falls to 4th place, his lowest position all season .. for the first 22 weeks he'd been 1st or 2nd.

Howie72 is now out front on his own a ˝ pt in front of paper_aero, one of this week's winners .. 2nd place is his highest position since week 1.

Once again, ozzz2002 scored a bonus pick. He has now scored a bonus pick every week from week 12 onwards, to make it a record-breaking 12 weeks straight (FLC RB to be updated).

That completes the first half of the season. Another 23 wks and we greet the judges at the finish post in the first week of May 2014.

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

Plus it looks like we all got the Millwall game, but Leicester won...???

Edited by dg_dave (Wed Jan 01 201410:43 PM)

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The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin JowettNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor RooseveltThe day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

I resent the word 'outrageous', and request that you replace that word with 'extremely insightful'.

LOL!!!

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The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin JowettNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor RooseveltThe day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

Sypher scores his 2nd weekly win in three, to reduce the gap behind the leader to a mere 1˝ pts .. he was 9˝ pts behind the leader 7 weeks ago, in 8th place.

There were only two solo pick bonuses this week; and neither one was by ozzz2002, who thus sees his streak of outrageous picks, aka as extremely insightful picks, come to an end. His streak ended at 15 weeks, which beat the existing record of 11 weeks set three years ago in season 2010-11 by .. ozzz2002!

Between us we averaged 56.3% .. a strike rate which has been bettered only seven times in the eight years we've been running the FLC comp (see post above this one).

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

The moon and stars were all in alignment for week 29. Between us we picked 64.5% correct, which is the second best since the FLC comp started back in 2006. The best-ever strike rate was 64.8% in week 33 of the 2007-08 comp.

Sixteen players lodged picks, and ten of us picked 8/12 or better for a bonus, but the piece de resistance is the unbelievable-humungous outrageous picks of 11/12 by FussBudget. It's the second ever 11/12 in the FLC comp. The first was by srini701 in week 22 of the 2008-09 comp. These two picks of 11/12 are, without a doubt, the *best ever* set of picks in any FT tipping comp since the first one started back in March 2000.

To put this into perspective -- to achieve perfect picks of (say) 15/15 in the NHL comp we have 32,708 different combinations (15 games, x2 choices each game = 2 to the power of 15). Perfect picks in the FLC comp are *only* 12/12 but there are three choices H-x-A in each game, which means we're looking at 531,441 different combinations .. round it to half a million for a perfect pick. For picks of 11/11 there are 177,147 different H-x-A combinations, and only one of them is a correct set of eleven.

FussBudget missed Birmingham v Derby County, which finished a 3-3 draw. He picked Derby Co to win away .. and they were leading 3-2 deep into injury time. Birmingham equalised in the 93rd minute! He was *that close* to picking 12/12 at odds of ˝ million to one.

FussBudget received a bonus for picks of 8/12 or better, another two bonuses for a perfect pick or near miss, and yet another two bonuses for two solo picks, or one of three. That's a mammoth haul of 13˝ pts; enough to jump from 4th all the way into first place. The first four are now separated by a mere 2˝ pts.

Well done sir! To get 11/12 is an amazing feat, and he near picked the card!

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The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin JowettNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor RooseveltThe day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.

b = bonus for picking 8/12 or better.xx = double bonus for perfect, or near miss 10+/12. s = bonus for picking a result solo, or one of three. w = bonus for picking draw, no one picked win. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win.bp = total bonuses for the year at ˝ pt each.

It's as we were .. very little movement this week. Three weekly winners, three wooden spoons, FussBudget retains his lead, ozzz2002 is the first player into the 40s for bonus picks and (after a recount) illiniman14 extends his spoon-less streak to 45 weeks.